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Guitar Practice & Technique Method 1: Rock Like The Pros

Do you struggle with your technique on your guitar? Do you wish you could play with more speed, accuracy, dexterity, and confidence? The Rock Like The Pros Beginning Guitar Practice and Technique Method 1 book will not only help you develop killer technique and strength, but will give you some amazing warm-up exercises you can do every time you pick up your guitar.

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Computer Music Presents: Music Producer's Guide to Synths 1st Edition 2022 PDF

The complete guide to the exciting world of softsynths, brought to you by the experts at Computer Music magazine.

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Mathematical Music: From Antiquity to Music AI

Mathematical Music offers a concise and easily accessible history of how mathematics was used to create music. The story presented in this short, engaging volume ranges from ratios in antiquity to random combinations in the 17th century, 20th-century statistics, and contemporary artificial intelligence.

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Sonic Persuasion: Reading Sound in the Recorded Age

Sonic Persuasion: Reading Sound in the Recorded Age critically analyzes a range of sounds on vocal and musical recordings, on the radio, in film, and in cartoons to show how sounds are used to persuade in subtle ways. Greg Goodale explains how and to what effect sounds can be "read" like an aural text, demonstrating this method by examining important audio cues such as dialect, pausing, and accent in presidential recordings at the turn of the twentieth century.

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Rethinking Music through Science and Technology Studies

This volume seeks to offer a new approach to the study of music through the lens of recent works in science and technology studies (STS), which propose that facts are neither absolute truths, nor completely relative, but emerge from an intensely collective process of construction. Applied to the study of music, this approach enables us to reconcile the human, social, factual, and technological aspects of the musical world, and opens the prospect of new areas of inquiry in musicology and sound studies.

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Rock Like The Pros Beginning Blues Guitar Mastery Book

Welcome to the Beginning Blues Guitar Mastery book by Rock Like The Pros and written by Terry Carter. This book is the most comprehensive book written for Blues on the Guitar in the world. In the Rock Like The Pros Beginning Blues Guitar Mastery book you are going to learn how to play all styles of Blues rhythm, fingerstyle, and picking on this wonderful six-string instrument.

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Beginner Guitar Chord Book: Your First 99 Guitar Chords

Learn your first 99 guitar chords quickly using Brent’s visual system tried and tested with thousands of students. Designed for the complete beginner to intermediate level guitar players of any age. The chords you will learn are the most frequently played chords in pop, country, folk, and rock guitar playing.

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Bandcamp for Artists & Music Labels: Marketing Tips to Sell more Music and Merch!

On a monthly basis, Bandcamp on average pays out 16 million dollars a month to artists and labels. If that isn't impressive enough since launching Bandcamp, it has paid artists $525 million as of June 2020. That's half a billion dollars straight to artists and labels directly from their fans!

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The Oxford Handbook of Music Performance Volume 1

The two-volume Oxford Handbook of Music Performance provides a resource that musicians, scholars and educators will use as the most important and authoritative overview of work within the areas of music psychology and performance science. The 80 experts from 13 countries who prepared the 53 chapters in this handbook are leaders in the fields of music psychology, performance science, musicology, psychology, education and music education.

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Poetic Song Verse: Blues-Based Popular Music and Poetry

Poetic Song Verse: Blues-Based Popular Music and Poetry invokes and critiques the relationship between blues-based popular music and poetry in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The volume is anchored in music from the 1960s, when a concentration of artists transformed modes of popular music from entertainment to art-that-entertains.

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Rhymes in the Flow: How Rappers Flip the Beat

Despite its global popularity, rap has received little scholarly attention in terms of its poetic features. Rhymes in the Flow systematically analyzes the poetics (rap beats, rhythms, rhymes, verse and song structures) of many notable rap songs to provide new insights on rap artistry and performance. Defining and describing the features of what rappers commonly call flow, the authors establish a theory of the rap line as they trace rap’s deepest roots and stylistic evolution—from Anglo-Saxon poetry to Lil Wayne—and contextualize its complex poetics. helps explain rap’s wide appeal by focusing primarily on its rhythmic and thematic power, while also claiming its historical, cultural, musical, and poetic importance.

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Keyboard Lessons for Beginners: Teach Yourself How to Play Keyboard

Progressive Beginner Keyboard contains all you need to know to start learning to be a great keyboard player - in one easy-to-follow, lesson-by-lesson keyboard tutorial. Suitable for all ages and all types of keyboards and pianos. No prior knowledge of how to read music or playing the keyboard is required to teach yourself to learn to play keyboard from this book.

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The Theory of Sound Volume One (Dover Books on Physics Book 1)

The major work by a Nobel Laureate who was among the greatest of 19th-century physicists is a standard compendium which has served generations of acousticians, physicists, and mathematical physicists as the classic coverage of all aspects of sound, both experimental and theoretical.

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The Frustrated Guitarist's Last Chord Book: How to Finally Learn To Play Rhythm Guitar

Regardless of where you are in your guitar chord studies, "The Frustrated Guitarist's LAST Chord Book" will take your understanding of the guitar's fretboard and chord playing to new and unexpected places. Say goodbye to all other lesson materials you've tried to utilize to get you there. You're obviously not there yet or you wouldn't be here.

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Fingerstyle Blues Guitar: Master Acoustic Blues Guitar Fingerpicking and Soloing

Master Acoustic Fingerstyle Blues Guitar Break down this challenging yet rewarding genre step-by-step, from your first finger independence exercises right through to complete studies that seamlessly combine chords, bass lines and melodies into full pieces of music.

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Guitar Arpeggio Handbook 2nd Edition: 120-Lesson Step-By-Step Guide to Guitar Arpeggios Music Theory and Technique

With over 250 lessons, guitar licks, exercises and arpeggio-over chords concepts, this new edition book and streaming video course is all you will ever need for learning guitar arpeggios and how to apply them to make your playing more expressive and musical!

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From Music to Sound: The Emergence of Sound in 20th- and 21st-Century Music

From Music to Sound is an examination of the six musical histories whose convergence produces the emergence of sound, offering a plural, original history of new music and showing how music had begun a change of paradigm, moving from a culture centred on the note to a culture of sound. Each chapter follows a chronological progression and is illustrated with numerous musical examples.

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The Rolling Stones All the Songs Expanded Edition: The Story Behind Every Track

Philippe Margotin, Jean-Michel Guesdon, "The Rolling Stones All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track, Expanded Edition" Comprehensive visual history of the "World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band" as told through the recording of their monumental catalog, including 29 studio and 24 compilation albums, and more than a hundred singles.

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Introduction to Music Publishing for Musicians: Business and Creative Perspectives for the New Music Industry (Music Pro Guides)

At a time when artists are independently releasing their own music and acting as their own self-publishers, there has never been a greater need for a simple and easy-to-read introduction to the business and creative aspects of music publishing for musicians.

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Leading with Sound: Proactive Sound Practices in Video Game Development

Leading with Sound is the must-have companion guide to working on video game projects. Focused on the creative, collaborative, philosophical and organizational skills behind game sound and eschewing the technical, this book celebrates the subjects most essential to leading with sound in video game development at any level. Refuting the traditional optics of sound as a service in favour of sound as a pro-active visionary department, , this book examines each of the four food-groups of dialogue, sound design, music and mix, not through the usual technical and production lenses of ‘how’ and ‘when’, but the essential lens of ‘why’ that enables leadership with sound.

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